818 Roundup: Glendale police deliver Easter bags to Mann Elementary; Glendale council on district-based voting

Glendale Police officer Vincent Jackson, right, and community service officer Cyndi Lindner, left, talks with Horace Mann Elementary School third graders about traffic safety at the Glendale school on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. About 30 officers and community service officers brought a truckload of Easter bags to the school and talked about traffic safety with the children.

April 3, 2015 7 AM PT

Good morning, 818! Today is Friday, April 3, 2015. Temperatures for today are expected to reach a high of 89 degrees and a low of 53 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

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Glendale police delivered Easter bags on Wednesday to more than 700 students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Glendale. About couple dozen officers and volunteers distributed the bags to 720 students, ranging from preschoolers to fifth-graders, while also educating them about traffic safety.
Despite publicly stating their opposition to an initiative that would create district-based voting, a measure created in response to the threat of a lawsuit, several members of the City Council stated the decision should be up to voters.
Two of the four initiatives on the ballot Tuesday deal directly with money: Asking voters to increase the city’s hotel tax and to allow the City Council to set its own pay.
A mid-year review of students’ scores on iReady assessments show that they are making gains compared to results from the start of this school year, but across Glendale, 54% of students tested at or above their grade level in math, while 52% tested at their grade level or above in reading.
The man who died after his vehicle collided with a tree Wednesday morning was identified as 57-year-old Cabot Hines, a North Hills resident.
A woman was airlifted from Wildwood Canyon Park in Burbank on Thursday afternoon after she fell and passed out while hiking, officials said.
A 21-year-old parolee pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he stole more than $1,000 worth of items from Macy’s in Glendale and fought a store employee who confronted him, police said.